Windows Snipping Tool. Microsoft has a new development area entitled Microsoft Garage, which is an outlet for experimental projects. One of those experimental projects is a snipping tool app called . Snip extends the functionality of the standard Windows snipping tool and has been given a more modern . The download file is approximately 2. MB and installation of Snip is pretty quick – no reboot required. How do I use . Simply click on the shortcut to start the app. Once started, the app is displayed at the top of the screen as a discreet thin black rectangle. To view Snip’s options simply hover over the rectangle. The first image is the Capture option and clicking on this changes the mouse cursor to a crosshair- style icon with a viewfinder. To cancel your snip simply press the escape key. Moving the crosshair around the screen, the underlying image will be expanded in the viewfinder to allow very accurate snipping. During a snip, the app appears to split the screen into two distinct areas, the main window and taskbar. Also a quick click on the mouse, without dragging, will capture the current area the mouse is in, i. Quite handy if you just want a simple screen shot. By default, Snip starts out docked to the top of your main monitor, but it can be dragged to anywhere on your display. It will automatically dock to the edge of a display (and hide itself) or can be left, fully open, in the middle of a display and will remain . On releasing the cross- hair icon disappears and the Snip Editor window is opened. In the editor you can, highlight areas of the image, draw on the image, even create a video with audio whilst drawing on the image, great for tutorials etc. We’ll look at the Snip Editor tools in more detail in another post as there are quite a few. Needless to say, the usual options are available, including . The default filename has been amended from . Quite handy if you need to rattle off a number of snips. We like the new Snipping Tool or should that be Snipping App from Microsoft. We’re guessing that it will eventually replace the old Snipping tool as the standard Windows snipping tool which won’t be a bad thing. The new version certainly has lots of extra features that we have been wanting for ages on our old Windows snipping tool. And, it will probably merge into the Office toolset as well. The Snipping Tool is a program that is part of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Window 8. Snipping Tool allows you to take selections of your windows or desktop and save. SnipIT lacks an interface. Insert international characters to your Office 2003 programs. With Windows 8.0 I was able to use the snipping tool and. Snipping Tool - Associate with Default Email Program. I checked my default programs and Windows Mail. If you are using the new Microsoft. Snip. IT - Free Download. Works under: Windows Vista / Windows XP. Windows XP Snipping Tool brings the basic functionality of Windows 7 Snipping Tool to Windows XP. Crop, resize, copy to clipboard are some of its screen shot features.
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